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YOUNG'S NO 1 AP
Structure dossier · WDID 3901063 · 1 · EAST ELK CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:46 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (2deb1d7) — every figure regenerates from this named code version and data image.
Where it sits
Location as DWR records it. Faint dots are the neighbouring water; click any to open it.
Which of its rights are out of priority?
Not computable for this structure: this structure is not on the modelled flow network, so no reference gage can honestly stand in for it.
Where it sits in line
Priority 1899-02-17 — 133rd most senior of the 1758 structures with decreed rights in this water districtDWR's administrative subdivision of a river basin; the unit calls are usually stated in..
Under prior appropriationColorado's rule for sharing water: first in time, first in right. Age decides, not proximity or need., everything ahead of it in this line is satisfied in full before it receives any water. Immediately ahead: JENNINGS NO 2 DITCH (1899-02-17). Immediately behind: YOUNG'S NO 2 AP (1899-02-17).
Decreed rights (2)
| Admin noDWR's numeric encoding of a water right's seniority. Smaller is more senior; the integer part counts days from 1849-12-31 to the date that ranks the right. | AppropriatedWhen water was first put to beneficial use. It sets seniority unless a prior adjudication date is later. | AdjudicatedWhen the water court confirmed the right. A use decreed in 1975 was not a decreed use in 1955, however old the appropriation is. | AbsoluteA right actually put to use, as opposed to conditional -- a placeholder for a use not yet made. | ConditionalA right reserving a place in line for a use not yet made; it must be diligently pursued or it lapses. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18313.17945 | 1899-02-17 | 1900-12-17 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 158 |
| 32959.25995 | 1921-03-04 | 1943-01-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 220K |
Legal record & documents
2 decreed actions on record across
1 court case:
06CW0159.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
06CW0159 | 2 | 1943-01-11 | S |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 12 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 224 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 310 AF — 138% of that, and 8th lowest of the 12 years with a recorded volume.
| Year | Diverted (AFA volume: one acre covered a foot deep, about 326,000 gallons -- roughly a suburban household's outdoor use for a year.) | Compared with its own record | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 347 | 10th lowest of 12 · 155% of median | 128 | 2.6 |
| 2011 | 361 | 11th lowest of 12 · 161% of median | 164 | 1.8 |
| 2015 | 208 | 5th lowest of 12 · 93% of median | 121 | 1.9 |
| 2016 | 345 | 9th lowest of 12 · 154% of median | 136 | 1.9 |
| 2017 | 228 | 7th lowest of 12 · 102% of median | 139 | 1.0 |
| 2018 | 194 | 4th lowest of 12 · 86% of median | 134 | 1.2 |
| 2019 | 443 | 12th lowest of 12 · 197% of median | 157 | 2.5 |
| 2020 | 178 | 2nd lowest of 12 · 79% of median | 114 | 1.2 |
| 2021 | 186 | 3rd lowest of 12 · 83% of median | 157 | 0.6 |
| 2022 | 168 | 1st lowest of 12 · 75% of median | 144 | 0.6 |
| 2023 | 221 | 6th lowest of 12 · 98% of median | 187 | 0.6 |
| 2024 | 310 | 8th lowest of 12 · 138% of median | 178 | 1.3 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 12 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (8/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 2 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 1759 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 57% of the irrigation seasons in 2010-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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